Back about 4 years ago we were forced to get a maxtor netattach (can't remember the name) because at the time journaling file systems were virtually non-existent. Then that lasted for a year before we outgrew it and then we went with a Dell NAS server 600GB also windows 2000 embedded. It has scsi connection to connect SuperDLT tape backup drive and the windows 2000 backup program works for our needs. Simple for any average joe to restore files.
I did look into getting a linux NAS but the solutions out there didn't support external tape drives all that well like SuperDLT. Backup software was crazy on Linux. I tried over 15 IIRC different Linux backup solutions, everything from ARCserve for Linux to free backup scripts. I just use tar to backup our mail server and to restore it's not totally intuitive but I manage.
So please tell me now there has got to be a decent Linux NAS solution out there that has web based interface to manage (add users, groups,etc.), has scsi connection for LTO, DLT tape drives, and comes with decent backup and restore program/interface.
The difference is huge. The impact of this new format has huge ramifications across all businesses and industries. It'll truly be a huge boon to avoid vendor lock-in. Also will allow the data to be manipulated how each business deems in their best interest versus now how Microsoft, for instance, determines with what tools and how much it'll cost to manipulate the data.
If you really want to dig deeper check my Feb 13th entry on my homepage
Feb 13 DesktopSummit Feb 9th OOoRegiCon Abstracts Presentations PDF and talks mp3 50MB
Now download the PDF and listen to Gary Edwards talk in mp3 entitled "The Shot Heard 'Round the World - How the OASIS Open Document changes everything".
I did a comparison of dvd online rental services just at the end of last year. Long story short Netflix beats blockbuster and walmart and many others. Gamefly is the best gaming rental place. DVD Rentals Comparison
Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
Now if these two projects merge we'd be in pure esctasy. I use seashore now and it's great.
[quote]As a OS X user, I would also say anything that requires X11 is not a native OS X application. [/quote]
I agree..that's why this project merge with seashore is pure heaven. In a nutshell it's Gimp on cocoa beans.
Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
Sorry I can't find the article on line. I have Popular Mechanic magazine here and basically Jay Leno say's Ferrari's clutches suck requiring a new one ($5,000 a pop) after only about 5,000 miles. So perhaps you should say Apple is more like Porsche.
Jay is definitely hardcore. He has an uber car collect though he's still concerned with economy. He's been pretty public in saying that he doesn't like to challenge people with is Lambo (4wd car) because "I could take him, but i don't want to waste a $5000 clutch". He states it in the article, and he's said it a few other times. A lot of people can afford to own a Ferrari, not all of them can afford the maintenance. Jay can, but he'd rather improves his collection and drive his cars rather than see them in the shop.
I did read it...I know some run in windows and some are mini linux distros that require bootable USB drives. He linked to puppy linux in the article (RTFA yourself) which does require booting from a cdrom or a bootable USB drive.
One of the huge advantages of USB drives is ability to save configurations, files, etc. Now though that unionfs is coming out on a few live cds having a computer with a cd burner will provide basically the same functionality as the USB linux distros do.
Ok found the mp3 of the openoffice talks but they were huge 128Kbps. So I converted them to 32Kbps and they sound great (these are talks not rock concerts) and I threw them all in one 50MB zip file. It's on my frontpage with links to pdf files too.
download at mrbass.org
found all the pdf's. I loved the openoffice presentations you can see all presentations a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/r egicon/abstracts.html"
I'm download the two mp3's about 60MB each of Simon Phipps and Gary Edwards and will host them on my website as soon as I can upload them.
Robin Rowe founder of LinuxMovies.org Linux in the Motion Picture Industry
He showed clips of 'The Last Samurai', Bad Boyz, etc. He said Shrek2 had a 2,500 cpu render farm and was fast approaching their deadline. They contact HP for an additional 1,000 cpu render farm and sent their info to them so that could finish. Like in last samurai he said no arrows were shot in the whole movie they were painted in. Also the shot with thousands of arrows the actors had them stuck in their legs and the digital effects people had to reverse trajectory paint them in. Pretty neat stuff.
Mitch Kapor lotus 1-2-3, co-founder of eff.org, working on chandler I really liked his talk...he really is a visionary. He basically just sees it as a matter of time till open source blows over but his time frames are like 10 to 15 years.
Brenno de Winter This guy single handedly wrote an op-ed and had the Dutch goverment stop a 160 million Microsoft contract of 5 years for something like 25,000 desktops. Instead he had redhat, suse, etc. summit alternative bids for like 7 million dollars. Anyway he now has minister and politicians asking him about DRM, etc. I stood next to him while I was buying like 25 firefox and thunderbird cds but didn't say anything. He's really a funny guy. He kept belting out s-word and b-word, etc. totally hilarious.
Gary Edwards like a co-ordinator for openoffice OASIS. I almost didn't sit through this talk cuz I was like what the hell is OASIS? But boy oh boy this is really gonna revolutionize all office suites and the way business share documents.
He said last 3 years OASIS (open document) has been in the making. Microsoft objected to it being called 'openoffice document' so they settle on 'open document'. It'll be in Openoffice 2.0. It supports XML, Xforms, UBL (universal business language...bills of lading, etc.), compound documents. Say Abiword opens a compound document with some word processor format with spreadsheets and it'll gracefully handle it just saying it can't display the spreadsheet portion.
Barry is totally in the know and I couldn't get enough of what he had to say. Other talks I liked were Doc Searls and Simmon Phipps who is a Sun guy and anyway.
I really got the feeling that Novell and Sun are embracing it slowly but surely. Anyway about those Linspire 4.5 and Linspire 5.0 beta...I guess they just don't like my little shuttle box. I guess I'll have to wait till they send me a japanese version (hey Scott) of 5.0 and hopefully I'll have better luck with that one.
I did try that Novell 9 Linux Desktop 60 day trial and yeah it's basically suse but with an administrator's perspective to make it easy to manage hundreds and thousands of workstations. Kinda cool.
Now they said they were videotaping all presentations but for the life of me I can't find squat online. I got that cd from Kim Brand (opensource in small schools) but it doesn't seem to have 25% of what was in the whole slideshow presantation.
Nero is optional. DVDShrink 3.2 released about a week ago or so can now split out an.iso into 1GB chucnks on a FAT32 partition and automatically burn with DVD Decrypter (freeware). Prior to this it could transcode to an 4.37GB.iso and burn with DVD Decrypter if you had an NTFS partition.
Bottomline is that you don't need any payware (yes it can burn with Nero or CopyToDVD) but why? DVDShrink 3.2 and the lastest DVD Decrypter are awesome especially with the new AEC algorithms that rivals if not beats Instant Copy 8.
Xandros open circulation has opera with built in text ads...to install gimp you have to PAY to be a member..please.
Linspire (lindows) same thing pay to install...true you can apt-get but it's still commercilized with restrictions up the ying-yang.'
The best I've found for the average joe to replace a windows computer to avoid having to install spybot, ad-aware, firewalls, privacy cleaners, etc. is Mepis Linux. When Debian Sarge comes out it'll still be relevant because of Mepis's hardware detection, preinstalled java, flash, sound just works, etc. If you wish to download the iso (testing version) I have a 100MBps mirror.
Codeweavers for $40 is definitely worth it for many making the transition until they find a suitable replacement. I don't know how much longer I'll need to keep win2000 on one of my computers but I hope not more than 2 years..maybe only 1 more year...who knows.
Near the end of this year I plan to have my sisters and mom and many of my friends hopefully on Mepis and the support calls won't be clean up this crap but rather how do I use blah blah which is much less time consuming to deal with.
Thunderbird 0.5 doesn't work filtering junk mail. I tried it for over a week and the results were pathetic. Funny thing is Mozilla works pretty decent. I was writing a guide on anti-spam techniques and was surprised I couldn't recommend Thunderbird but instead had to recommend Mozilla. For those pour souls using Outlook/Outlook Express pop3 only K9 works great and is free.
I intend to get into this DIY censoring. I too want to make custom versions. Currently the easiest and fastest way is to load say 10 of the same main movie title into dvdshrink.
Then use the START/END frame in TITLE1...set the end frame to the beginning of the sex scene then start frame to TITLE (2) at the end of the offensive sex scene. Anyway you get the idea...it's easy....Wish there was a way to easily mute the words but it's possible just not totally practical for the average joe.
Only way is to demux it, etc. I think the best bet will be in the future in something like dvd2dvd with cce.
dvdshrink linux version
ok not exactly a linux version but just download dvdshrink w98lite 3.1.7 and voila..it works under wine within linux. This just has the.exe which has no installer and also it's tied to some system dlls.
DVDShrink source code will never be released. Can't say why but trust me it won't. It's still getting regular bug fixes and it's just awesome in it's current state.
Don't worry about it. Many companies like Nero and Pinnancle, etc. offer no decrypting to stay out of legal battles. DVDFAB was a victim of Germany's new gangster laws and had to remove decrypting in his program. I still have the decrypting on my website.
BTW, I'm in California and if they do say take down downloads of dvdshrink, dvd2dvd, and dvdfab, etc. then I'll simple ask the authors of those programs to offer a non-decrypting version and then I'll leave it up to others to find ways of decrypting them such as freeware solutions dvddecrypter and dvd43 (on-the-fly decrypting).
This stuff is not going to be resolved until Supreme Court strikes down the Fair Use Law or Congress revises DMCA in it's current condition.
an advertisement? For four years I never had ads...until last september when bandwidth got outta control and couldn't afford to pay for it outta my pocket like I have been. Last month I served over 300GB.
Who am I? well pretty much a nobody and a loser. I'm a mod over on doom9.org forums..that's about it.
Slashdot Mirror
I knew they had hearts and thought of this as an alien invasion of their civil rights like in the 1950s.
Back about 4 years ago we were forced to get a maxtor netattach (can't remember the name) because at the time journaling file systems were virtually non-existent. Then that lasted for a year before we outgrew it and then we went with a Dell NAS server 600GB also windows 2000 embedded. It has scsi connection to connect SuperDLT tape backup drive and the windows 2000 backup program works for our needs. Simple for any average joe to restore files.
I did look into getting a linux NAS but the solutions out there didn't support external tape drives all that well like SuperDLT. Backup software was crazy on Linux. I tried over 15 IIRC different Linux backup solutions, everything from ARCserve for Linux to free backup scripts. I just use tar to backup our mail server and to restore it's not totally intuitive but I manage.
So please tell me now there has got to be a decent Linux NAS solution out there that has web based interface to manage (add users, groups,etc.), has scsi connection for LTO, DLT tape drives, and comes with decent backup and restore program/interface.
The difference is huge. The impact of this new format has huge ramifications across all businesses and industries. It'll truly be a huge boon to avoid vendor lock-in. Also will allow the data to be manipulated how each business deems in their best interest versus now how Microsoft, for instance, determines with what tools and how much it'll cost to manipulate the data.
If you really want to dig deeper check my Feb 13th entry on my homepage Feb 13 DesktopSummit Feb 9th OOoRegiCon Abstracts Presentations PDF and talks mp3 50MB
Now download the PDF and listen to Gary Edwards talk in mp3 entitled "The Shot Heard 'Round the World - How the OASIS Open Document changes everything".
I created a dvdshrink guide in flash using Wink on June 25, 2003...it's pretty nice for being free.
I did a comparison of dvd online rental services just at the end of last year. Long story short Netflix beats blockbuster and walmart and many others. Gamefly is the best gaming rental place. DVD Rentals Comparison
Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
Now if these two projects merge we'd be in pure esctasy. I use seashore now and it's great.
[quote]As a OS X user, I would also say anything that requires X11 is not a native OS X application. [/quote]
I agree..that's why this project merge with seashore is pure heaven. In a nutshell it's Gimp on cocoa beans.
Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
Sorry I can't find the article on line. I have Popular Mechanic magazine here and basically Jay Leno say's Ferrari's clutches suck requiring a new one ($5,000 a pop) after only about 5,000 miles. So perhaps you should say Apple is more like Porsche.
comment from here
Posted Feb 17, 2005, 10:43 AM ET by Jon F.
Jay is definitely hardcore. He has an uber car collect though he's still concerned with economy. He's been pretty public in saying that he doesn't like to challenge people with is Lambo (4wd car) because "I could take him, but i don't want to waste a $5000 clutch". He states it in the article, and he's said it a few other times. A lot of people can afford to own a Ferrari, not all of them can afford the maintenance. Jay can, but he'd rather improves his collection and drive his cars rather than see them in the shop.
I did read it...I know some run in windows and some are mini linux distros that require bootable USB drives. He linked to puppy linux in the article (RTFA yourself) which does require booting from a cdrom or a bootable USB drive.
Maybe you should read the article more carefully next time. linux usb drive distros
One of the huge advantages of USB drives is ability to save configurations, files, etc. Now though that unionfs is coming out on a few live cds having a computer with a cd burner will provide basically the same functionality as the USB linux distros do.
"now my browsing is the same wherever I go."
so are mrbass.org/l my bookmarks...requires any computer, not just the few that actually have BIOSes capable of booting USB drives.
Ok found the mp3 of the openoffice talks but they were huge 128Kbps. So I converted them to 32Kbps and they sound great (these are talks not rock concerts) and I threw them all in one 50MB zip file. It's on my frontpage with links to pdf files too. download at mrbass.org
found all the pdf's. I loved the openoffice presentations you can see all presentations a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/r egicon/abstracts.html"
I'm download the two mp3's about 60MB each of Simon Phipps and Gary Edwards and will host them on my website as soon as I can upload them.
ok found a good summary here and a buttload of photos still looking for mp3s of that talks...anyone know where?
Robin Rowe founder of LinuxMovies.org
Linux in the Motion Picture Industry
He showed clips of 'The Last Samurai', Bad Boyz, etc. He said Shrek2 had a 2,500 cpu render farm and was fast approaching their deadline. They contact HP for an additional 1,000 cpu render farm and sent their info to them so that could finish. Like in last samurai he said no arrows were shot in the whole movie they were painted in. Also the shot with thousands of arrows the actors had them stuck in their legs and the digital effects people had to reverse trajectory paint them in. Pretty neat stuff.
Mitch Kapor lotus 1-2-3, co-founder of eff.org, working on chandler
I really liked his talk...he really is a visionary. He basically just sees it as a matter of time till open source blows over but his time frames are like 10 to 15 years.
Brenno de Winter
This guy single handedly wrote an op-ed and had the Dutch goverment stop a 160 million Microsoft contract of 5 years for something like 25,000 desktops. Instead he had redhat, suse, etc. summit alternative bids for like 7 million dollars. Anyway he now has minister and politicians asking him about DRM, etc. I stood next to him while I was buying like 25 firefox and thunderbird cds but didn't say anything. He's really a funny guy. He kept belting out s-word and b-word, etc. totally hilarious.
Gary Edwards like a co-ordinator for openoffice OASIS. I almost didn't sit through this talk cuz I was like what the hell is OASIS? But boy oh boy this is really gonna revolutionize all office suites and the way business share documents.
He said last 3 years OASIS (open document) has been in the making. Microsoft objected to it being called 'openoffice document' so they settle on 'open document'. It'll be in Openoffice 2.0. It supports XML, Xforms, UBL (universal business language...bills of lading, etc.), compound documents. Say Abiword opens a compound document with some word processor format with spreadsheets and it'll gracefully handle it just saying it can't display the spreadsheet portion.
Barry is totally in the know and I couldn't get enough of what he had to say. Other talks I liked were Doc Searls and Simmon Phipps who is a Sun guy and anyway.
I really got the feeling that Novell and Sun are embracing it slowly but surely. Anyway about those Linspire 4.5 and Linspire 5.0 beta...I guess they just don't like my little shuttle box. I guess I'll have to wait till they send me a japanese version (hey Scott) of 5.0 and hopefully I'll have better luck with that one.
I did try that Novell 9 Linux Desktop 60 day trial and yeah it's basically suse but with an administrator's perspective to make it easy to manage hundreds and thousands of workstations. Kinda cool.
Now they said they were videotaping all presentations but for the life of me I can't find squat online. I got that cd from Kim Brand (opensource in small schools) but it doesn't seem to have 25% of what was in the whole slideshow presantation.
Nero is optional. DVDShrink 3.2 released about a week ago or so can now split out an .iso into 1GB chucnks on a FAT32 partition and automatically burn with DVD Decrypter (freeware). Prior to this it could transcode to an 4.37GB .iso and burn with DVD Decrypter if you had an NTFS partition.
Bottomline is that you don't need any payware (yes it can burn with Nero or CopyToDVD) but why? DVDShrink 3.2 and the lastest DVD Decrypter are awesome especially with the new AEC algorithms that rivals if not beats Instant Copy 8.
100MBps ..I wish...I meant 100Mbps.
Xandros open circulation has opera with built in text ads...to install gimp you have to PAY to be a member..please.
Linspire (lindows) same thing pay to install...true you can apt-get but it's still commercilized with restrictions up the ying-yang.'
The best I've found for the average joe to replace a windows computer to avoid having to install spybot, ad-aware, firewalls, privacy cleaners, etc. is Mepis Linux. When Debian Sarge comes out it'll still be relevant because of Mepis's hardware detection, preinstalled java, flash, sound just works, etc. If you wish to download the iso (testing version) I have a 100MBps mirror.
Codeweavers for $40 is definitely worth it for many making the transition until they find a suitable replacement. I don't know how much longer I'll need to keep win2000 on one of my computers but I hope not more than 2 years..maybe only 1 more year...who knows. Near the end of this year I plan to have my sisters and mom and many of my friends hopefully on Mepis and the support calls won't be clean up this crap but rather how do I use blah blah which is much less time consuming to deal with.
Thunderbird 0.5 doesn't work filtering junk mail. I tried it for over a week and the results were pathetic. Funny thing is Mozilla works pretty decent. I was writing a guide on anti-spam techniques and was surprised I couldn't recommend Thunderbird but instead had to recommend Mozilla. For those pour souls using Outlook/Outlook Express pop3 only K9 works great and is free.
Why pay $14.95 when you can use Audacity (GPL) and do it for free. Here's my guide how to make your own Make your own ringtones
I intend to get into this DIY censoring. I too want to make custom versions. Currently the easiest and fastest way is to load say 10 of the same main movie title into dvdshrink.
...set the end frame to the beginning of the sex scene then start frame to TITLE (2) at the end of the offensive sex scene.
Then use the START/END frame in TITLE1
Anyway you get the idea...it's easy....Wish there was a way to easily mute the words but it's possible just not totally practical for the average joe.
Only way is to demux it, etc. I think the best bet will be in the future in something like dvd2dvd with cce.
dvdshrink linux version ..it works under wine within linux. This just has the .exe which has no installer and also it's tied to some system dlls.
ok not exactly a linux version but just download dvdshrink w98lite 3.1.7 and voila
DVDShrink source code will never be released. Can't say why but trust me it won't. It's still getting regular bug fixes and it's just awesome in it's current state.
Don't worry about it. Many companies like Nero and Pinnancle, etc. offer no decrypting to stay out of legal battles. DVDFAB was a victim of Germany's new gangster laws and had to remove decrypting in his program. I still have the decrypting on my website.
BTW, I'm in California and if they do say take down downloads of dvdshrink, dvd2dvd, and dvdfab, etc. then I'll simple ask the authors of those programs to offer a non-decrypting version and then I'll leave it up to others to find ways of decrypting them such as freeware solutions dvddecrypter and dvd43 (on-the-fly decrypting).
This stuff is not going to be resolved until Supreme Court strikes down the Fair Use Law or Congress revises DMCA in it's current condition.
mirror for ut2004 windows and linux....sorry mac is taking forever to download. So not sure if I'll mirror that or not.
an advertisement? For four years I never had ads...until last september when bandwidth got outta control and couldn't afford to pay for it outta my pocket like I have been. Last month I served over 300GB.
Who am I? well pretty much a nobody and a loser. I'm a mod over on doom9.org forums..that's about it.